Danny Sullivan Quotations

This will probably calm some of this thing down.

Yahoo has great organization for its service with great relevancy. I think it's going to definitely help build them up for people looking for that kind of content.

Losing the person who is the head of their operations just diminishes credibility for their search and puts a larger question mark behind what they are doing. Overall, the move is not a good sign for their search prospects.

Search engines compile a lot of data on what we search for and much of what we search for is personal. Many people fear that the government wants to do data mining. It'll be interesting to see how much of all this ultimately becomes a political issue.

SEOs will be much more fragmented on different platforms within social networks. It'll help eliminate a lot of the search spammers, but is going to impact on anyone who gets rankings on search engines without having good content.

One million random Web addresses doesn't tell you how many are porn or how many kids had access.

For the smaller services, the challenge is to make some kind of a case for why people would want to stay with them, ... They can argue today that they are more mature and they can offer more tools. This isn't a death knell for the smaller services, but this is a door slamming for them growing more.

If the government wants to estimate how much pornography shows up in the searches, then they are asking for data that is useless to them. You can get that information from other companies.

What will really be interesting is how they actually display it in Web search results.

Heck, Google Talk doesn't even feature a box to let you search for things, as rival products from AOL, MSN and Yahoo do.

I think it's a good move for them. I've long wondered when they were going to get that whole thing put together. This is related to the idea of organizing information and helping people understand what's going on. Not to say that the other players out there aren't any good.

Overall it looks interesting but I don't know if they have anything that the other people couldn't match if they are lacking,

People just get into a certain mindset. That's why so many people are watching Scott with great interest. If he does well, it will prove everything that we've said all along, that Americans can succeed if they have a chance.

I think MSN has some features advertisers will gobble up, but it's too early to say whether it will be a superior experience. They have a sizable amount of traffic. Advertisers will want to reach that audience, and buying through MSN is going to be the only way to do that.

Microsoft's problem is that despite having all this stuff, they haven't really budged their share of search.

Users will be the best judge of which search engine is the most appropriate,

The P.R. community is learning more, but many remain in the dark.

You look at what he's had to deal with, with his personal concerns, and you understand what kind of person you are dealing with. I have no doubt Scott will handle any pressure that comes his way.

We often search for private things that we may prefer not be seen by others, even if the possibility is fairly remote. At minimum, police your own desktop by clearing history. That's the most vulnerable part, I'd say.

While the search marketing space grows, it's hard to get good people trained, If they're good, others want to poach them.

Every major search engine has some form of paid placement.

At this point, I think everyone understands that maps are a great way of presenting information and there are probably opportunities there, and that's long overdue.

Are you asking for a service to actually make the changes, or do you just want them to come and look through your site and suggest things overall and you do it?

Dropping the home page count is a positive move that I think helps defuse the entire 'size wars' situation,

The tremendous growth in search underscores it as a fundamental advertising and public relations medium that has to be considered alongside other ad and PR venues, rather than being an afterthought. The growth also makes the New York event all the more critical for anyone and everyone looking to gain further traction in this surging market. Those not already in it are falling further behind. Those who are taking part face stronger competition for limited search inventory and rising prices. Our conference helps both groups get ahead.

It would jeopardize Goggle's position with its competitors and compromise relations with users.

Technically, they can use that to find out who you are.

AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo did not violate the privacy of any user by handing over this information. No private data was revealed. Nevertheless, by not pushing back against such a bad request for data, it leaves open the real fear that they might not push back if the US government decided to go on a real fishing expedition in the future. Privacy may not have been lost but trust was.

The bottom line is, they're doing everything they can to take on Microsoft at its own game.

This could have a significant effect on open-wheel racing in this country. It is a big moment, and having a successful driver from here could vastly improve the popularity of F-1 in America.

This does make it more competitive for those users,

They said, back when they invested in the Internet-over-power-lines company, that part of their corporate mission is 'promoting universal access to the Internet for users,' ... They seem to think they need to make sure everybody can get online, and running your own network certainly makes that a lot easier.

They have a sizable amount of traffic. Advertisers will want to reach that audience, and buying through MSN is going to be the only way to do that.

This is the most high-profile dropping of a company we've seen. Bigger companies have probably been dropped, but we haven't heard about it.

They have lots of information. They know what people are clicking on. They know what people are searching for.

It's a crowded market. If other companies get popular they would get purchased.

It's very ambitious to say you're going to go into another area and immediately change it. Radio isn't very measurable right now, not because of a lack of interest, but because it's just a tough thing to do.

For anybody using Excite right now it should be a huge improvement because one of the problems with Excite was it's a relatively small database and that has meant that there have been good sites that just get dumped,

It just adds to the Google lustre. He would be a smart visionary and leader.

It's my turn now, and the wait was worth it, ... I'm having the time of my life right now.

It's not an issue of privacy but it raises the question that next time it could be.

It looked like a task force coming down the street. They wanted to know if we had seen or heard anything.

It's difficult to kill somebody that you're dependent on,

They definitely have a market, because they have the traffic. Search marketers can't seem to get enough traffic. I don't know anyone who is not going to try MSN.

They definitely have a market, because they have the traffic, ... Search marketers can't seem to get enough traffic. I don't know anyone who is not going to try MSN.

They've mounted a public-relations campaign to counter the perception of bias, but the perception is definitely out there.

Nothing suggests that they wanted to know who did the searches in any way. Having said this, such a move absolutely should breed some paranoia. They didn't ask for data this time, but next time, they might.

The kids showed me the gun and I took it from them and called police. I thought it had something to do with the murders because the girl's car had been found in the lot over there.

I'm interested to see if the search companies who handed over info to the feds lose any market share and/or total number of searches in the future due to sharing data with the government.

If you have the ability to access your files remotely, you can work on them from anywhere.

If you are unsure whether or not a site can support a subdomain on its own, it can't,

In the last year and a half, (A9) hasn't skyrocketed in popularity.

If you want to measure how much porn is showing up in searches, try searching for it yourself rather than issuing privacy alarm sounding subpoenas. It would certainly be more accurate.

Before this, I was actually of the mind that if you're doing the disclosure, this is the way to go. The more I thought about this, I realized this is evil. You're caving into censorship that you in your heart of hearts don't believe in.

He's quick. He naturally knows how to make a car go faster, and that's rare in a young driver. He's proven he's fast everywhere he goes, and he adapts quickly.

I don't really have a range of what it would be it's all over the place.

Hopefully, I'll be overlooked. Hopefully, I'll pull off my best wrestling at state.

Honestly I think there is no master plan other than 'Let's put this tool out there and see what people do with it,'

You could add a billion pages about Britney Spears and that doesn't mean the quality of results will be any better. There have been times when other search indexes have expanded, and the results have actually gotten worse.